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Liquid Telecom's bid to link Kenya to China via Sh64b cable stalls

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A communication firm worker fixes a roll of underground fiber cable. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The High Court has dismissed a case filed by Liquid Telecommunication Kenya Ltd, questioning the Communication Authority of Kenya (CA)'s failure to give it the green light to connect Kenya to a high-speed undersea cable from China.

Justice Patricia Gichohi sitting in Nairobi ruled that the internet services provider, slept on its rights after CA declined to issue a license granting it landing rights to the 15,000km (kilometre) Pakistan-East Africa Connecting Europe Company (Peace) cable.

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